trust-falling
English
Etymology
trust fall + -ing
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒlɪŋ
Noun
trust-falling (uncountable)
- The act of performing a trust fall.
- 2007, Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN, page 476:
- One night, I stood in the middle of my Art Family, and my Art Family held hands around me like in the hippie days trust-falling, and we sang “Slow Poke” or “My Buddy,” or harmonized on the “Idaho State Song” or “Song of Bernadette” or ...
- 2009, Jacob Lentz, Paul Koehorst, There's No I in Office: 4293 Meaningless Phrases to Keep Your Coworkers Smiling While Avoiding Actual Conversation, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 186:
- There better be trust-falling or I'm totally out of here.
- 2012, Patrick M. Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
- After years of off-site meetings filled with ropes courses and trust-falling exercises, even the most openminded executives have come to be suspicious of anything that looks or sounds touchy-feely.
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